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Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
JAPANESE PASTIMES.
Days Set Apart for the Amusement OF the
Boys and Girls of Japan.

Days Set Apart for the Amusement of the
Boys and Girls of Japan.
Japanese children have an infinite
variety of sports, too varied for NEIL
ton in an article of this length. Boys
devote themselves to kite-flying in the
spring months, when the winds pre-
vail. There are singing and whistling
kites in the shape of birds. animals and
men. Men even spend days flying
monster kites. so large that it takes a
stout rope to hold them. Boys also
spin tops, play soldier. wrestle and
practice at all kinds of athletic exer-
cises. The fifth days Of the fifth
months of every year are boys festival
days. on which the younger sons of the
family have presents Of flags decorated
with representations Of the daring
deeds of the great men Of the country,
and especially of those of their ances-
tors who have been noted for bravery
or wisdom. On this day and for weeks
afterward the whole country presents
strange appearance. Every house
that has boys in the family erects a
flagstaff, to which large cloth fish is
suspended. Some Of these are thirty
or forty feet in length. and when they
are inflated by the breeze look like
fish swimming in the water. These
fish flags represent the carp. which has
the reputation of being the most
active, daring and persistent of all
fish. These are the qualities which
boys are taught to emulate. Girls play
battleilore. and become very skillful at
it, and they are as much devoted to
their dolls as their little sisters of other
races. The third day of the third
month is the doll festival. when every
little girl receives presents OF dolls
from her friends and has doll-show in
her house. There are also beautiful
exhibitions of dressed dolls on certain
streets in all the towns and cities, and
the whole population turn out to Gel
citrate the day and entertain the little
folks.-San Francisco Chronicle.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
HASTY RETREAT.
How q Live Boston Broker Got Ahead Of
Life-Insurance Agent.

How q Live Boston Broker Got Ahead Of
a Life-Insurance Agent.
Teddy Sprint, one of the bright
brokers of State street, had just run
over to the office from ''the board for
a breathing spell the other day when
there entered to him the mammoth
life-insurance agent of the period-the
gentleman who only takes $4,000 and
100000 risks.
Imparting this information to Teddy,
and further saying that Mr.. Sprint had
'.been recommended to him by the
eminent banker Bullion, he was about
to continue when Teddy vivaciously re-
marked:
''Bless You, my boy. I'm a dealer in
stocks and bonds, and when one of
these insurance companies buys lot of
securities of me, why take some in
surance."
The bland agent glanced loftily at
the blackboard and said:
Il sometimes take flyer myself
Suppose you buy hundred N. Y. &
N. E. for me, and put stop order on
it at CO.,
The broker rapidly wrote the neces-
sary telegram and sent it flashing to
New York, and the insurance agent
strOlled out to let his order have its
due effect on Teddy.
Meanwhile New York and New Eng
land moved up to IS, slipped down to
60, wiped out Mr.. Insurance Man, and
then walked up to 63, and quivered
there among the fractions, and when
the big Injun of insurance dropped in
again he was handed his account,
which showed him net loss of 1925.
His jaw dropped little, but he inn
mediately tackled Teddy on the $780,
600 policy racket, bound to hedge his
loss. just as he had started, Leath-
erbee, the lumberman, dropped in, and
taking in the situation at once, cheer
fully asked:
"Oh! Teddy, how is your lung
trOuble?''
The insurance man gasped, and,
Teddy, with a Mt. Auburn cough, re-
sponded:
''Oh, think / am not much worse.
The old man was not more than thirty
eight, you know. when he was TAKEN"
Here the insurer leaned against .
desk for support, and Teddy continued.
IF it was not for this Internal in
flammatory rheumatism and the vari-
cosc veins of my left leg, l shouldn't
mind the cough"
The perspiration had been gathering
in large drops on the insurance mans
forehead during these remarks. and
when Teddy coughed again in his hand
kerchief. into which he had spilled a
little red ink, the alarmed agent, with
muttered excuse, fairly fled from the
Office.
what . hurry he was in," said
Teddy, as he looked blandly through
his eyeglasses; II meant to have asked
him to call around and canvass my
father-in-law. - Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Bangs are prohibited in the Semi
nary of st. Agnes. for young ladies. =
Roman Catholic institution in Brook
lyn.-N ]. Mail.
"A young man has joined the Pres
bytery OF Sacramento who is the first
one born in California that has entered
the ministry Of the Presbyterian
church.
The Bapsis. Veekly is authority for
the statement that recently. in Con-
necticut, three persons We're baptized
whose ages were respectively. ". 20
and LOG years
The English Methodists have pur-
chased ut Epworth. the birthplace OF
John Wesley, a site for chapel. school
and parsonage. as a memorial OF him.
in Philadelphia the Anglomania
has developed to such proportions that
a school has been started where young
ladies can learn the English walk in
less than Observation-Disclosures Press.
A Canadian lady. who was under
going examination for teachers cer-
titicate. was asked: "Who surrendered.
and to whom, ut the battle Of Sedan?"
She answered. positively: General
Washington to the Duke Of Yelling
ton. Troy Times.
The Waldensian Synod. after full
discussion Of the plan of union between
the Waldensian and the Free Church Of
Italy. adopted it warmly after some
modification. This will ensure the de-
sirable concert of effort for the evan
gelization of that land of many of its
most earnest and warm-hYarted Chri-
tianS
A convention of Young Peoples
Associations of the churches of New
York was held the other afternoon and
evening. and a permanent society was
organized, the object of which is to en-
courage the forming of such associa-
tons and to increase their efficiency.
The plan embraces churches of all de-
nominations, not excluding Catholics.
N. Y. Tribune.
A mission Sunday-school, number
ing about three hundred. and composed
of newSbOys. bOotblacks and street
waits, assemblies on Sunday afternoons
in the large hall of the old Board Of
Trade building. Chicago. 1t opens with
lunch of sandwiches for the children,
and closes with singing and a march
around the hall under the lead of an
rchestra.--Chicago journal.
Archbishop Ryan. of Philadelphia
has caused much commotion among the
managers of the Catholic Charity Ball,
which for several years has been a bril-
liant social and financial success in
that city. by calling attention to the
fact that the Third Plenary Council Of
Baltimore, in its decree prohibits all
balls for charitable institutions. He
says that none of the proceeds Of the
ball can be devoted to charitable OBJ
jects.-N. Y. Sun.
A rich friend of the university ut
Syracuse. n. Y, will shortly build for
It an observatory and furnish tele-
scope. A rumOr, which is not denied
by the faculty, is to the effect that an
other friend of the university is soon to
present very large and valuable
library to the institution. The present
building is so fully occupied that new
structure will have to be put up to con-
tain the new library.-Bufdlo Express.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
That was a pitiable COME

That was pitiable confessics
which the aged C. d. Talmage made liz
a Philadelphia court touching his rela.
tons with Mrs. Anne Wallingford, tn.
adventures, who had wheedled him in.
to assigning to her all he owned on
earth: 1T was fraud and a cheat.
never owed her cent of the $4,000
said to have been the consideration fol
the assignment She has robbed me
of $25. 900. She has seventeen husbands
and twenty different Names PhIe-
delphia Press.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
WIT AND WISDOM.

1T isn't our needs, generally. that
are so expensive. It's our cravings.
Some men are born mean and some
achieve meanness. No one has mean
ness thrust upon them.-Ieras Sittings.
"A Charleston paper speaks of an
opal "as large as a small hens egg"
We should think it would be difficult to
set.-Boston Commercial Bulletin.
That distinguished and excellent
Judge. Lord Mansfield, once observed:
.'True popularity is not the popularity
which is followed after. but the popu-
larity which follows after
(which is correct" asked Mrs.
Coldtea, "'the biscuit are light or the
biscuits are light?'' Neither" re-
piled the first floor front. the biscuit
are heavy is correct. The Rambler.
Now is the time to look around for
last years snow-shovel. If you have
any trouble in finding it look in the
parlor over the piano. The chances
are that your oldest daughter decorated
it and hung it up last spring.-Somer-
rilie journal.
Mrs. de Hobson (complacently)-
Yes, Mr.. Featherly, that is portrait Of
myself when little girl. twas painted
by celebrated artist. Mr.. Featherly
(anxious to say the right thing)-Er-
one of the old masters?-N. Y. Sun.
Extremely Thin Party: just re-
turned from Florida, old man! Great
country to brace man up! Gained
twenty-five pounds in three weeks!
Stout Party: How'd you get thereby
mail?oPucE.
"A frightened carl:
There was once an English earl
Who loved m American geari;
When he found her estate
Was house and back-4ate,
It frightened his hair out of cearl
Boston Budget.
Eyes. the team isquite good one,
Mr.. Horsely,' he said as he returned
the liveryman's brag team, '.but it has
two drawbacks. ''Oh. indeed; and
may 1 inquire what they are?' The
lines" -Dallas Neus.
do send that organ-grinder away.
His music is horribler' II don't think
80. 1 consider it fine music" ..Finer'
Decidedly so. How could it be other.
wise, when it's ground so much?''-
Chicago Ledger.
"A rather elderly maiden had mar.
ned gentleman named Young. al
low me to congratulate you on tho
renewal Of your YOUTH said the lester
after the ceremony. ''Sir," was the
frigid and dignified response, 81 fail to
comprehend your meaning" why"
said the jester, don't your know your
marriage has made you Young agaipt.s
-tVtsburyh Dispatch
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
The album of Adelina Patti.

The album OF Adelina Patti, en-
riched by the autographs of all the
great composers and musicians of the
day. contains the following contribu-
ton from Berlioz: Oportet patti
Latin scholars construe this adaSe BY
One must suffer. Commands translate
it thus, Bring in the patty. And lovers
Of music by We must have Pat
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03

Senator Kenna, of West Virginia.
bears striking resemblance to the Late
Stephen A. Douglas
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
LAxITY NOT LlsERALlTx.
One Must Have q Positive Belief Before H
Can BE Really Charitable Toward
the Opinion Of Others.

Liberality of opinion is very diff
ferent thing from laxity of opinion.
Indeed. no man can be liberal and
catholic in his views unless he is m.n
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-02-03
Sunday-SchooI Lessons.

FIRST QUARTER, 1887.
Jan. 16-Cain and Abel Gen. -l6
Jan. 23-Noah and the Ark Gen. 1922
Jan. 30-Tne Call of Abram ......... Gen. 12:1-3
Feb. 6-Lot's Choice. Gen. Bib
Feb. I3-Gods Covenant with Abram.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Gen. 15:5-1S
Feb. 21-Abraham Pleading for Sodom.
Feb. 27-Destruction of Sodom -. Gen. I9:I52G
Mar. 6-Abraham Offering Isaac. Gen 22:3l 1
Mar. 13-Jacob at Bethel Gen. 2s:l0a?
Mar. 2e-JacoD's New Name. ....... Gen. 32:912
Mar.27-Review. Temperance Lesson. Gen.
9:18g7: Missionary Lesson Gen. 1S:l1-a6. Or,
aService of Song and Prayer.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13

The act of putting a lead pencil 10 the
tongue TO wet it just before writing is one of
the oddities for which it is hard 10 give any
reason, unless it began in the days when pen
ellis were poorer than now, and was continued
by example to the next generation.
A lead pencil should never be wet. 1t har-
dens the lead and ruins the pencil. This
fact is known TO newspaper men and steno-
graphers. But nearly every one else does
wet pencil before using it. The fact was
definitely settled by n newspaper clerk way
down East.
Being of mathematical turn of mind he
ascertained by actual count that of fifty per-
sons who came into his office to write an adj
vertisement or notice, forty-ninc wet pen
Gil in the mouth before using it. Now, this
clerk always uses the best pencils, cherishing
good one with something Of the pride which
soldier feels in his gun or sword, and it
hurts his feelings to have his pencils spoiled.
But politeness and business considerations
require him to lend his pencil scores of
times day. And often after it had been wet
until it was hard and brittle, and refused to
mark, his feelings would overpower him.
Finally he got some cheap pencils and sharp
ened them and kept them to lend.
The first person who took up the stock
pencil was drayman, whose breath smelled
OF onions and whisky. lie had the point in
his mouth and soaked it several minutes
while he was torturing himself in the effort
to write an advertisement for missing bull
dog. Then sweet!ooking lady came into
the Office, with kid gloves that buttoned half
the length of her arm. She picked up the
same old pencil, and pressed it 10 her dainty
lips preparatory to writing an advertisement
for lost bracelet. The clerk would have
stayed her hand, even at the risk of box of
the best Faber pencils, but he was too late.
And thus that pencil passed from mouth 10
mouth for week. 1t was soaked by people
of oil ranks, and all degrees of cleanliness and
uncleanlincss.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
Alleged Signs OF Luck.
Dream of eggs, sign of money.

Dream OF eggs, sign of money.
Dream OF snakes, sign of enemies.
evil.
tyou sing before breakfast you'll cry be-
fore supper.
Dreaming of muddy or rushing water
brings trouble
Finding horseshoe or a four-leayed clover
brings good luck.
She who takes the last stitch at quilting
will be the first to marry
II you cannot make up handsome bed
your husband will have homely nose.
II you spill the salt some one will be mad
with you, unless you put some of it in the
fire.
Stub your right toe, you are going where
you are wanted; your left, where you are
not wanted.
lfyour right ear burns some one is prais.
ing you; if your left, your friends are raking
you over the Goals.
Returning TO the house for moment after
having once started out will bring bad luck
unless you sit down.
1t the rooster crows on the fence the wealth
er will be fair; if on the doorstep, he will
bring company.
While at the washboard, if the suds splash
and wet the clothes you are wearing you will
have drunken husband.
When, in dropping fork, it strikes the
floor ard stands upright, it will bring gen.
teman visitor; if knife, lady.
lfyou drop your dish cloth you will have
company, also you sweep black mark, or
ii two chairs stand accidentally back TO back.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
The Nick in the Collar.

A queer thing about coats is the little ".
shaped nick in the lapel by the shoulder.
That nick doesn't make the coat "set" any
better. 1t doesn't help the appearance of the
coat IN any way, yet there that nick is in
every frock coat worn the world over. That
has puzzled me for long time and l have
just found out the reason. When the First
Napoleon first gave way to his ambition he
tried to impcae Gen. Moreau in Piohegrus
conspiracy; Morcau had been Napoleon's SUI
perior and was very popular, but, under the
circumstances, as Napoleon WAS on top, it
was not safe to express publicly any sympa-
thy with Morcau, so his admirers quietly
agreed to nick their coat lapels to show who
they were. If you look at the outlines of
your coat now you will see that they form an
Mike this =. Moreau, by the way, was ex-
lied by Napoleon and lived in Morrisville in
Pennsylvania. Isn't it queer that we should
all be commcmorating Moreau as we do with
out knowing it?
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
VOL. XXXII----NO. 20.
VARIETIES.

Reason is progressive instinct complete
swift instinct leaps; slow reason feebly
climbs.
whats the trouble here. Mickey?"
Don't you know There's street car tie
up" "Oh, see. That's why so many peo-
pie are standing around in knots"
Consume little time in regret. The
best repentance is reformation. What tears
OF contrition are powerless to effect, an alter
ed life easily accomplshes.
An enterprising Philadelphia cigar dealer
displays a flaming sign bearing the legend:
"a Three cent Segar that Will Astonish You"
We get the same kind out West for cent
apiece.
Queen Elizabeth is the reputed auther of
the saying, "The farther go west, the more
convinced am that the "Wise Men" came
from the East" II is often attributed TO
DR.. johnson.
speaking about the artist who painted
fruit so naturally that the birds came and
picked at it, said the fat reporter, II drew
hen that was so true to life that after the
sage threw it into the waste basket it laid
there"
Mamma COMMUNICATIONS Bobby,
take your medicine now, and then lump into
bedW Bobby-"I don't want to take
any medicine, ma" Father (who knows
how to govern children) -"Robert, il you
don't take your medicine at once you will be
put to bed without taking it at ALL"
HE who is truly, deeply, essentially hon
est loves honesty so much better than any
possible reward that he chooses ii every time
apart nom any consideration of its results,
and neither hope nor fear, neither bride nor
threat, could tempt him away from his loyal
allegiance.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
Wedding Addresses.

The homey, affectionate, and familiar way
in which priests officiating at French we'd
dings address the brides and bridegrooms has
often been commented upon. One recently
delivered ran as follows:
at is from the bottom of my heart, Joseph,
that l congratulate you upon the great step
you are taking. 1t was indeed sud to see you
wasting your youth in life of disgusting
drunkt lness. However, all is well that ends
well and it pleases ne to think that you
have said goodbye forever to the wine shop.
As to you, my poor Catharine, thank heaven
heartily that you have been able ugly as you
are, to fad husband Never forget that
you ought, by an Interchangeable sweetness,
and devotion without bounds, to try to OBJ
tain pardon for your physical mperfection !;
for, repeat, you are real blunder of nature.
And now, my dear children, join you in
matrimony.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
A Sailors Commitment.

A compliment, true and genuine, was paid
by a sailor who was sent by his captain to
carrya letter to ihe lady of his love. The
sailor, having delivered his message, stood
gazing in silent admiration upon the lady, for
she was very beautiful.
"Wcll, my good man." she said, for what
do you wait? There is no answer to be re.
turned"
Lady" replied the sailor with humble de-
ference, "ifyou please, would like to know
your name"
did you not see it Oh the letter ?"
pardon, LADY, never learned to read.
Mine has been hard, rough life"
"And for what reason, my good man, would
you know my name?"
Because" answered the old tar, looking
up honestly, "in storm at sea, with danger
aiore me, would like to call the name of the
brightest thing I'd ever seen in my life.
Thered be sunshine in it even in the dark
ness"
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
The Westerner and the Dude.

A tall, fine looking man, clad in the garb
of wild westerner, strolled into the Fifth
avenue hotel, New York, the other night. A
dude clad in dress suit stared at him as II
he were wild beast. The westerner stared
back for a moment until he had looked the
dude out of countenance, and then walked
over 10 the young swell and said in thun-
dering voice: "Well, what is it ?" "What
is what ?" asked the dude, turning red. "You
must have forgotten your manners TO stare
at me as you did. know l forgot mine or
l would not speak to you about it. look,
rough, and all that, but you are probably
more of curiosity to me than l am to you;
still l know better than to be SO rude as to
stop and look you over as If you were on ex-
hibtion." The incident attracted considera-
bic attention, and the dude lost no time in
getting away.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
The American and the Oriental.

The Eastern fatalst not only submits to
misfortune without o murmur, but faces death
with iron .composure. He has the mind of
Hamlet concerning it Gift is now, tits not
to come; if it be not to come, it will be now;
if it be not now, yet it will come. The readi-
ness is ALL"
The American, on the other hand, in his
eagerness 10 set the whole world right, quar-
reIs with inevitable disaster, as with trivial
wrongs, and istoo often ready TO call no God
to explain TO his satisfaction the mysterious
workings of the universe. Even with the
help of his Christianity, his behavior is often
that of petulant child compared with tho
grave submission of the Asiatic to destiny.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13
The Effect OF Dress.

Il don't wonder men go down before
well-dressed womau," said a friend of mine
the other day. We had just met an acquaint-
ance in the street, without at first recogniz-
ing her. She was badly dressed, because of
the snow. Only the day before she had come
into drawing-room dressed in brocade and
blue fox fur, and had eclipsed every other
woman in the room, We all said, How
positively plain. Only one face in thous-
and has the supreme charm of beauty which
shines through all vicssitudes of dress.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13

A WoMANs LAUGH.-A woman has no
natural grace more bcwitching than sweet
laugh. It is like the sound Of flutes on water.
rill; and the heart that hears it feels as II
bathed in the exhilarating springs. Have
you ever pursued an unseen fugitive through
the trees, led o1 by her fairy laugh, now here,
now there, now lost, now found? We have.
And we are pursuing the wandering voice to
this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the
midst of care, or sorrow, or irksome business,
and then we turn away and listen, and hear
it ringing through the room IKE silver bell,
with power to scare away the evil spirit OF
mind.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1887-05-13

-"Major, if some one were TO challenge
you to fight duel, what would you do ?"
ut would all depend on whether &c was a
gentleman or not" said the majo. "If he
was gentleman, I'd certainly fight him.
"But how would you judge as to that ?"
"That wouldn't be hard to tell. If he was
gentleman, he wouldn't want to fight me IN
less 1had insulted him and wouldn't insult
him If he was a gentleman"